Consultant Clinical Psychologist - CEDsNHS
Job summary
Are you an experienced and inspirational Consultant Clinical Psychologist seeking an opportunity to shape and lead specialist eating disorder services for children and young people?
RDaSH is seeking a Consultant Clinical Psychologist to provide senior clinical, professional and strategic leadership within our Children and Young People's Eating Disorders Service (CEDS).
This is a highly influential consultant-level role with responsibility for advancing psychological practice across the service, supporting the management of complex clinical presentations and contributing to the strategic development of safe, effective and accessible care. Working as a senior member of the multidisciplinary team, you will provide expert psychological oversight, strengthen formulation-led practice and lead improvements in quality, outcomes and patient and family experience.
You will play a key role in developing the psychological workforce, influencing service and pathway development, and ensuring that the needs and lived experiences of children, young people and families remain central to clinical practice and strategic decision-making.
If you are passionate about improving outcomes for children and young people with eating disorders and want to lead innovation, workforce development and psychologically informed care, we would welcome your application.
Main duties of the job
Provide strategic, clinical and professional leadership for psychological practice within the Children and Young People's Eating Disorders Service. Deliver and oversee highly specialist assessment, formulation and intervention for children and young people with complex eating disorders and co-occurring mental health needs.
Lead on complex case consultation, risk assessment, treatment planning and multidisciplinary decision-making, promoting formulation-led, trauma-informed care. Provide expert supervision, consultation, teaching and mentorship to psychologists and the wider multidisciplinary workforce.
Provide professional leadership for psychology staff, supporting workforce development, governance, recruitment and CPD. Lead service development, pathway redesign, quality improvement, audit, research and service evaluation to improve access, safety, experience and outcomes.
Work collaboratively with children, young people, families, colleagues and partner agencies to deliver compassionate, inclusive and person-centred care. Champion co-production and ensure lived experience shapes service delivery and development.
Provide expert advice to senior leaders on clinical quality, workforce development, service transformation and the management of clinical complexity and risk, while contributing to the strategic development of children and young people's services.
Job description
Please view the attached job description and person specification to view the full details about the role
We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if there are a high amount of applications
About us
Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) employ around 4000 talented colleagues who are very much appreciated, valued, and respected.
We have a wide portfolio which includes mental health, physical health, learning disability and drug and alcohol services.
We are dedicated to the development of our our people and hold a learning half day every month for our colleagues.
We are passionate about enhancing the quality of our service and we work hard to attract and select the right colleagues for our organisation. Our goal is to employ those who share our passion for providing first class care while remaining committed to our vision and values. Please view our Strategy using the link below:
https://www.rdash.nhs.uk/documents/clinical-and-organisational-strategy-2023-to-2028/
To find out more about working for RDaSH and the fantastic benefits we offer visit our website:
https://www.rdash.nhs.uk/about-us/getting-involved/work-with-us/
We are committed to inclusive cultures and really value people in our organisation, view our Allyship video on YouTube to find out more: